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Stop Campaigning and Start Conversing - The New Marketing Paradigm

Moderator: Tom Martin @tommartin

Q1: What is the difference between a marketing campaign and...

Q2: How do agencies have to change in order to create conve...

Q3: What are some examples of brands or agencies that have ...

Knowing Your Customer As Well As They Know You Through Social

Moderator: Tim Hayden @TheTimHayden

Q1: What "offline" touchpoints do you leverage to drive onl...

Q2: When do you provide a mobile app vs a mobile website?

Q3: What can you use socially to "learn" more about your cu...

Oct. 27th: Scott Monty

Moderator: Scott Monty @ScottMonty

Q1: First topic up is our #fusion41 program

Q2: #fusion41: online mktg strategy

Q3: #fusion4: What type of team does it take to not neccssa...

What kind of training / education / experience "qualifies" you to do social strategy?

Moderator: Meg Fowler @megfowler

Q1: If you work in social business / have social components...

Q2: Is a facility with social media more a function of temp...

Q3: If you're starting a social media initiative in your co...

Quick and Legal: How to Make Social Media Less Scary for the Legal Dept

Moderator: Lucretia Pruitt @lucretiapruitt

Q1: How can big companies advocate for less regulation to r...

Q2: Should you train legal in SM and what does it look like...

Q3: How do you create SM policies / strategies that legal w...

Does Pharma REALLY have anything to offer in social networking?

Moderator: Steve Woodruff @swoodruff

Q1: I think pharma companies are generally evil and I don't...

Q2: I have health questions and would really like to hear f...

Q3: What are pharma companies actually doing in the social ...

Characteristics of Highly Influencial Brands in Social Media

Moderator: Tamar Weinberg @tamar

Q1: Is there advantage to having Brand or a person be your ...

Q2: How do you choose to follow Brands on Twitter, Facebook...

Q3: Build a checklist for Brands on how to behave in SM for...

How do you cope with online distraction?

Moderator: Alexandra Samuel @awsamuel

Q1: What should managers' role be in ensuring employee soci...

Q2: What strategies and tactics can business people use to ...

Q3: When do you deliberately use social media as a distract...

August 11th: Liz Strauss

Moderator: Liz Strauss @LIZSTRAUSS

Q1: Macroblogging versus Microblogging-- Are the objectives...

Q2: I blog and I tweet and I find that I bring different pa...

Q3: Does a blog or Twitter work better from dept. to dept. ...

Sentiment Analysis: Opinions Matter, If Only You Knew Which Ones

Moderator: Katie Delahaye Paine @kdpaine

Q1: How do you define positive sentiment?

Q2: How does that impact your organizational goals?

Q3: How do you know that what you are measuring matters?

Socializing My Business – What Comes After the Chit-Chat?

Moderator: Kristi Colvin @KrisColvin

Q1: Why do we even need to integrate social into our busine...

Q2: How should you begin to socialize your business and wha...

Q3: What does social business integration look like for emp...

Social Media Offline: How to appropriately value and measure the impact of social media for offline businesses

Moderator: Tom Webster @webby2001

Q1: If you transact business *offline*, how can social medi...

Q2: What are some ways to measure the impact social has on ...

Q3: Given all the things you could do to support your offli...

Crisis Management for BP Using Social Media

Moderator: Gavin Heaton @servantofchaos

Q1: How has @BPGlobalPR affected perception and should they...

Q2: How is BP using social media to address the situation a...

Q3: What can other companies learn from this about managing...

Develop Your Social Business

Moderator: Maria Ogneva @themaria

Q1: What does it mean to have a social business?

Q2: List some steps you need to integrate social into exist...

Q3: How do you know when you have a Social Business (as def...

Blood from a turnip or can social drive sales in B2B?

Moderator: Kate Buck Jr @katebuckjr

Q1: What Should the primary objective of B2B social media m...

Q2: What are the best platforms for B2B social media practi...

Q3: Is social media an effective tactic for B2B sales and o...

Social scale in the enterprise

Moderator: Gradon Tripp @gradontripp

Q1: What are the benefits of spreading social through the e...

Q2: What are the potential risks of decentralizing social f...

Q3: What obstacles must be overcome within companies / orga...

Facebook blowback: What's the upshot for social media?

Moderator: JD Lasica @jdlasica

Q1: Has Facebook gone too far with "Open Graph," infringing...

Q2: What's the disconnect between the elites and the 425 mi...

Q3: Marketers are salivating over the troves of FB members'...

Separating the Personal & Professional in Social Media...or Not

Moderator: Kat French @KatFrench

Q1: How do you avoid accidentally mixing up personal & clie...

Q2: How do you avoid appearing to develop your personal pla...

Q3: How much should any personal crises show up in your pro...

April 7th: Mack Collier

Moderator: Mack Collier @mackcollier

Q1: What are the barriers that companies face today?

Q2: Who needs to be responsible / accountable for lifting t...

Q3: Let’s create a high-level road map to affect the cultur...

Scott Stratten: May 12th

Moderator: Scott Stratten @unmarketing

Q1: What’s the process for companies to start creating an a...

Q2: Should companies automate some, all or none of the proc...

Q3: : Where should a corp build followers of current and p...

Geoff Livingston: May 26th

Moderator: Geoff Livingston @GeoffLiving

Q1: What are the challenges with adopting a culture suitabl...

Q2: How can you prove that it works…What are some examples ...

Q3: Source a list of actionable items to help an advocate b...

Destruction of the Media Industry: Will We Be Better Off In the Long Run?

Moderator: Paul Gillin @pgillin

Q1: Does the proliferation of new media make us more inform...

Q2: Can businesses and institutions legitimately fill some ...

Q3: Can armies of bloggers and citizen journalists fill the...

Informal Tweet Chat Event

Moderator: @

The Future of Socialnomics

Moderator: Charlene Li @charleneli

Q1: What social networks will prevail in 2010?

Q2: How will consumers use them in the future?

Q3: What will the value metrics look like for consumers / b...

Influence and #Brandfail

Moderator: Arik Hanson @arikhanson

Q1: How should a Brand define results of a social media cam...

Q2: How much should Brands rely on influencers for results ...

Q3: Are media influencers just as important as Brand influe...

Can social media move the needle for brands during the holidays?

Moderator: Kary Delaria @KaryD

Q1: Coming Soon

Q2: Coming Soon

Q3: Coming Soon

Facing conflict on social networks

Moderator: Meg Fowler @megfowler

Q1: What are the key steps a business can/should take in de...

Q2: How do you face conflict when you're managing a communi...

Q3: What is your personal approach for dealing with conflic...

July 14th: Jennifer Leggio

Moderator: Jennifer Leggio @Mediaphyter

Q1: What's SM fame worth to you or your company? Is there R...

Q2: What do you see the value of having a recognizable pers...

Q3: What drives you? visibility or accomplishment?

"Content Curation" Hype or Solution

Moderator: Marc Meyer @Marc_Meyer

Q1: How do large brands create content to sell product that...

Q2: Is content curation a viable term to describe success i...

Q3: What does the future of content look like?

Is Retention the new acquisition in social media?

Moderator: Joseph Jaffe @jaffejuice

Q1: What might "retention is the new acquisition" refer to ...

Q2: What are some of the ways to get customers to purchase ...

Q3: How can you use existing customers to gain new ones?

June 16th: Toby Bloomberg

Moderator: Toby Bloomberg @TobyDiva

Q1: What demographics are most powerful in each of the top ...

Q2: Which demographics are most overlooked, ignored, or tak...

Q3: With the increase of social media usage, which demograp...

The disruptive forces of social content

Moderator: Erika Napoletano @RedheadWriting

Q1: What responsibilities do digital publishers (bloggers, ...

Q2: Is a blog really a blog if the author/publisher turns o...

Q3: What do you feel is proper attribution for photos and e...

Why Your Cyber Monday Emails Were Annoying: Updating Your Pitch for the Social Era

Moderator: Meg Fowler Tripp @megtripp

Q1: How has social integration changed the way you communic...

Q2: What needs to change about your copy/pitch -- besides a...

Q3: Has the social era changed your seasonal marketing?

Social media training: who needs it?

Moderator: Carri Bugbee @CarriBugbee

Q1: What should training programs focus on?

Q2: Who should provide the training?

Q3: What staff members should be trained?

Re-Shaping the Purchasing Process: The Rise of Social Retailing

Moderator: Alex de Carvalho @alexdc

Q1: How is social impacting retail sales?

Q2: How does Facebook, LBS (Location), Group Buying change ...

Q3: What is most important with social commerce - Branding,...

Using Video and YouTube to reach and influence audiences

Moderator: Andrew Mueller @andrewmueller

Q1: What types of video work to reach and affect audiences?

Q2: Is YouTube being used effectively by brands? Examples.

Q3: How do Google TV, Apple TV and others change the game?

What should we be measuring in social media?

Moderator: Jason Falls @JasonFalls

Q1: Are you trusting the results that you get when you meas...

Q2: What is the best way to get actionable insights from so...

Q3: How important or how "good" is the social data that is ...

Welcome to the Big Data Era, How do Marketers Cope?

Moderator: Ken Burbary @kenburbary

Q1: What types of data (digital, social, mobile) do markete...

Q2: Who (which group/function) should be responsible for th...

Q3: How long will companies and organizations have to wait ...

Connecting With Consumers Through Social Media

Moderator: Kyle Lacy @kyleplacy

Q1: What are ways to move customers up the interactive chai...

Q2: What’s the value of storytelling vs. messaging?

Q3: How can you get customers to take action on your behalf...

Measuring Influence Versus Popularity?

Moderator: Chuck Hemann @chuckhemann

Q1: How do you define influence and popularity?

Q2: What metrics can help define influence or popularity?

Q3: Which (popularity or influence) is more important?

March 31st: Beth Harte

Moderator: Beth Harte @BethHarte

Q1: Where are the deficiencies in business around People, I...

Q2: Play the “What if” game. Addressing the above deficien...

Q3: Combine the identified needs in business with the “imag...

August 25th: Shannon Paul

Moderator: Shannon Paul @Shannonpaul

Q1: What are the challenges / benefits from paying individu...

Q2: What are the challenges / benefits from paying individu...

Q3: So -people are talking disclosure. What type of disclos...

Apply Your Social Media Experience In Government

Moderator: John F Moore @JohnFMoore

Q1: What is "Open Gov" or "Gov2.0"?

Q2: How can business work with Local/State Gov in social?

Q3: What do social businesses need to know to work with Gov...

The Next Big Thing is So Last Year

Moderator: Greg Verdino @gregverdino

Q1: Why are marketers so obsessed with the next big thing e...

Q2: How do you balance the benefits of strategic innovation...

Q3: What's the one social media "old thing" most marketers ...

Do Influencers Or Customers Buy Your Products?

Moderator: Matt Ridings @techguerilla

Q1: Can a 'influencer' with 500 followers be as influential...

Q2: If context is so critical to understanding influence, d...

Q3: How can we migrate from 'influencer' programs to 'advoc...

Government & Social Media: The Global & Local Impacts

Moderator: Alexander B. Howard @digiphile

Q1: How effective is own government using social media in t...

Q2: How citizens are using social media at home?

Q3: What privacy, security and identity issues are raised b...

Buiding our own Frankenstein: Is engaging with customers via social media required, or optional?

Moderator: Jay Baer @jaybaer

Q1: What are the circumstances when a company should NOT en...

Q2: What are the organizational drawbacks to engaging with ...

Q3: How should companies modify their interactions, based o...

October 6th: Todd Defren

Moderator: Todd Defren @tdefren

Q1: Where is PR in the pecking order of must-do's for socia...

Q2: What should a PR plan integrated with social media look...

Q3: What is an ideal skill set for the new-age PR person? (...

This Town's Not Big Enough For The Two of Us: Social Media Marketing (SMM) vs. Traditional Marketing

Moderator: Beth Harte @bethharte

Q1: Is SMM on its way to replacing traditional marketing?

Q2: Can marketers be as accountable with SMM as traditional...

Q3: What are best practices for cooperating traditional mar...

Social Media Content Strategy

Moderator: Eve Mayer Orsburn @socialmediadel

Q1: Why is a SM content strategy important?

Q2: How can you make content really work for your business?

Q3: What are the key components of a good content marketing...

An introvert's approach to leveraging social media for business success

Moderator: Lisa Petrilli @LisaPetrilli

Q1: Does social media create a false image of people? Of co...

Q2: Does social media level the playing field for introvert...

Q3: How could an introvert leverage the social web successf...

The New Digital Press Release

Moderator: Shel Holtz @shelholtz

Q1: What value do you see to a social media news release or...

Q2: Are there still uses for the traditional news release?

Q3: How do you combine traditional media relations with soc...

Advancing the Discussion of Social Media & ROI

Moderator: Olivier Blanchard @thebrandbuilder

Q1: How can strategy & planning can impact ROI?

Q2: What are the steps to integrate SM across a business?

Q3: What is the difference between measurement & ROI?

Communicating Specifically To The Masses: Social Content Management

Moderator: Beth Harte @BethHarte

Q1: Is individual communications (socially) the same as mic...

Q2: Is communicating socially to micro-segments too dauntin...

Q3: How do you scale personalized communications whether so...

Informal Tweet Chat Event

Moderator: Apple Box Studios @AppleBoxStudios

Q1: What are clients expecting from agencies in the world o...

Q2: Who should own the conversation?

Q3: Is UGC making it easier or worse for agencies?

June 9th: Arik Hanson

Moderator: Arik Hanson @arikhanson

Q1: Is there a generation gap in social media for B2B orgs?

Q2: Can social media reach the C-suite in B2B orgs?

Q3: Give us some examples of B2B success in the social medi...

Social Media and Commerce for Business

Moderator: Augie Ray @augieray

Q1: How is social affecting online consumer purchases?

Q2: How is social affecting off-line/in-store purchases?

Q3: What are top 10 things to consider when setting up soci...

November 3rd: Jason Falls

Moderator: Jason Falls @JasonFalls

Q1: Assuming you are already listening, How do you get - In...

Q2: How does a brand know when it actually gets to - In-Net...

Q3: What are some examples of brands whose fans market for ...

Is pulling a bonehead move the new "strategy" for some brands?

Moderator: Shelly Kramer @shellykramer

Q1: What is best way to combat a blowup today versus 2 year...

Q2: Do brands seem to be using crises as "free" promotional...

Q3: Do consumers REALLY pay attention to crises and does it...

Social Media for Crisis Planning & Response

Moderator: Erik Deckers @edeckers

Q1: How can social be used in crisis communications?

Q2: What do companies need to do today in order to be able ...

Q3: Can social predict events before they happen?

June 30th: Lee Odden

Moderator: Lee Odden @leeOdden

Q1: Is social media good for SEO? Are there any ethical iss...

Q2: What strategies for combining SEO and Social Media have...

Q3: What tips, tactics and best practices can you share reg...

Journalism & Good Content are Finally Converging

Moderator: Jeff Cutler @JeffCutler

Q1: What outlets do you use to get your news today?

Q2: Who creates the best content: Journalists or Citizens? ...

Q3: What are the attributes of a good journalist today?

#sm129

Moderator: Lauren Vargas @vargasl

Q1: How do you measure impact within your community?

Q2: How do you differentiate and/or blend quantitative and ...

Q3: How do you measure cmty efforts if management is outsou...

Twitterville - What's Happened, What's Coming

Moderator: Shel Israel @shelisrael

Q1: How did Twitter change you business in 2009?

Q2: How will Twitter change in 2010?

Culture Shift: Is your company ready to go Social?

Moderator: Trey Pennington @treypennington

Q1: Employees or Management: Who drives the social culture ...

Q2: What comes first, executive investment or employee init...

Q3: Create a checklist that companies can use to become mor...

Love All Your Children The Same: Managing Multiple Social Brands

Moderator: Tamsen S. McMahon @tamadear

Q1: What's your biggest challenge/opportunity when managing...

Q2: Can you use the same team to manage multiple brands?

Q3: How do you connect the team(s) to business objectives f...

SCRM and the Value to Organizations

Moderator: R Ray Wang @rwang0

Q1: What are the basic tenents of SCRM?

Q2: How can you begin to tie social into existing CRM?

Q3: Build a list of useful SCRM use cases.

Enterprise Social Media: Working For Your Online Advocates

Moderator: Chris Kieff @ckieff

Q1: What is the best way to find advocates in social media?

Q2: Now that we've identified advocates, how do you build r...

Q3: How do you enable them to carry your message virally?

How do you manage the effectiveness of your social programs?

Moderator: Tac Anderson @tacanderson

Q1: What type of planning should go into your social media ...

Q2: What metrics should you always be looking at?

Q3: What should always be on your scorecard to measure effe...

Living on Borrowed Time? The Ad Agency Model is Changing

Moderator: Hank Wasiak @hankwasiak

Q1: What do Brands expect from agencies today and are they ...

Q2: How has social media altered the creative process and d...

Q3: What does the agency of the future look like?